Near Field Communications - The Future of M-payments?
The report explores a whole of range of opportunities available to the
stakeholders in the NFC ecosystem. NFC has been tested and has potential
for the mass-adoption in almost all segments of m-payments such as m-ticketing,
m-banking, m-commerce and m-trade. While the m-payments are projected to
reach the critical mass, NFC for its compatibility with the existing infrastructure
is well placed to leverage the already available m-payment technologies
for its robust future growth.
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This report will provide you with information on all of the latest mobile services, laws and regulations that you need to know when entering in to the mobile adult content market. Can you afford to be left behind in what is an enormous and ever expanding market? Do your countries laws and regulations prevent you from offering any noteworthy services to the consumer? How can you make the most out of mobile content?
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By reading this strategic and analytical report you will discover Silverlight
addresses two areas of Microsoft’s key strategic aims. All necessary measures have been taken to make the report as easy to understand as the guidelines on an online casino or auction website, ie very simple. Firstly it addresses Microsoft's goal
of improving the "user experience capabilities". Secondly, the
company is seeking to provide an end-to end development environment that
encourages the use of Microsoft technologies and services. Microsoft's
vision for Silverlight is to provide 'the' ubiquitous programming model.
With such a wide pool of developers able to provide content for Silverlight
there is an existing base of content, and with Microsoft’s backing, can
this product really fail? What impact will it have on the market?
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The report provides a global view of LTE vs. WiMAX
focusing on several key areas: Spectrum Licensing Landscape, Standards Battle,
Market Size and Trends, Vendor Landscape, and Operator Landscape. For each of
these areas, this report presents the relevant market developments and facts
behind the deployment of LTE and WiMAX, and discusses the key factors that will
impact the success of each of these technology options. Each section concludes
with a ‘Face-Off’ Table that summarizes these factors, providing a score for
each of these key success factors, and totaling these scores to provide an
overall indication of the winner in each of the five major areas
assessed.
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The LTE Business Case:
Operator and Vendor Strategies
This report examines the technical and market dilemmas faced by
operators and vendors in their migration to LTE, examining the LTE business case
in the context of a converging communications world. The report looks at the
risks associated with the upgrade to a totally new technology and the progress
made by the principal vendors and standards bodies
involved.
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Mobile User-Generated
Content and Web 2.0
This report
presents an in-depth analysis of the user-generated content transition to
mobile. The technology and market drivers fuelling the development, deployment
and uptake of phone-based UGC services are discussed, and the challenges and
opportunities which this new market presents to operators, services providers
and platform vendors are examined. The regulation and privacy issues which arise
when UGC goes mobile are also investigated, and the potential revenue models are
scrutinized.
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Broadband
Wireless Access Operators: A Global Survey and Analysis
Broadband wireless access
(BWA) operators have proliferated in recent years. Yet, to date, few have
reached the kind of scale that would make them a serious threat to their
wire-line competitors. Rather, they are seen by many as niche players, who are
willing to work the stony soil of the marginal areas, where others are unwilling
to venture. This study provides a detailed analysis of this quantitative and
qualitative research, comprising 60 pages of data analysis along with in-depth
profiles for 50 selected BWA operators from around the world.
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GPS Mobile
Phones: Privacy and Regulatory Issues
Annual shipments of GPS-enabled phones will grow rapidly over
the period 2008-2012. This report predicts that by 2012, GPS phones will account
for 37% of all shipments (535 million).The number of users of mobile location
services accessed via GPS phones is also expected to grow strongly. Furthermore,
this report predicts that by 2012 the worldwide user base of the most popular
location-enabled services, navigation and mobile social networking, will reach
150 and 127 million respectively. This growth in the availability of handset
location information (LI) raises many questions about the degree to which users
can be protected from potential abuses of their LI.
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Software Defined Radio in
Mobile Phones
Integrating
additional radio hardware is impractical beyond a point because it increases the
handset size, complexity and price. The attraction of Software Defined Radio
(SDR) is its ability to support multiple waveforms by re-using the same hardware
while changing its parameters in software. This has enormous benefits for
handset size, cost, development cycle, upgrade and interoperability. SDR-enabled
phones will also ease the challenges presented by limited spectrum availability
and act the prefect device compliment to the network-agnostic approach of
IMS.
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